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With derision the Blackhawks deserved after sleepwalking through the first two periods of Sunday's 6-2 loss to the Bruins, the United Center crowd of 22,104 booed perhaps the worst performance witnessed all winter in this building. And that's saying something considering the clunkers the Bulls have produced at home. "Pretty embarrassing," Hawks defenseman Niklas Hjalmarsson said. No argument here. Two days after goalie Corey Crawford gave up his softest goal in memory against the Avalanche, the Hawks produced their most pathetic effort of the season against a Bruins team that wanted it more. Exactly 35 years after the Miracle on Ice, the Hawks delivered a hockey...

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With derision the Blackhawks deserved after sleepwalking through the first two periods of Sunday's 6-2 loss to the Bruins, the United Center crowd of 22,104 booed perhaps the worst performance witnessed all winter in this building.
And that's saying...

MISSISSAUGA, Ontario — Hundreds of friends, family members and teammates gathered Saturday for former NHL defenseman Steve Montador's funeral. He died last weekend at the age of 35.
“Imagine if there was a time where there wasn't hockey: You wouldn't...

TORONTO -- Before concussions were a serious topic in hockey, Steve Montador knew all about the consequences of head injuries. Five years ago, while still playing in the NHL, Montador committed to donating his brain to research.
Dr. Charles Tator of...

The death of former teammate Steve Montador sent shock waves of sadness throughout the Blackhawks dressing room and across the NHL on Sunday.
A Peel Regional Police spokeswoman said Montador, who played 52 of his 571 career NHL games with the Hawks...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The World Cup of Hockey will be making a long-awaited return in 2016.
The tournament will feature eight teams with the games played in Toronto before NHL training camps open in September.
NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and NHL...

BOSTON — No matter the level of adversity, the Blackhawks have been able to overcome just about everything thrown at them during their scorching play for the last month.
That was tested again Thursday night as captain Jonathan Toews left during the...

TV/radio: 7 p.m. Sunday; CSN, WGN-AM 720.
Storylines: The Hawks return home from a four-game trip to play the second of a back-to-back after falling to the Islanders 3-2 on Saturday night. The Hawks are 9-3-1 at the United Center. The Flames started...

The Blackhawks traded forward Jeremy Morin to the Blue Jackets for defenseman Tim Erixon on Sunday.
Erixon will make his debut tonight as a third-line defenseman with Michal Rozsival against the Flames at the United Center. The puck drops at 7.
“He...

Short of adding Ann Sather to kill power plays, the Blackhawks' defense is almost as Swedish as can be.
When Duncan Keith and Brent Seabrook leave the ice, they give way to three players symbolically wrapped in a blue flag with a gold Scandinavian cross....

Football fans, in general, love the backup quarterback.
Chicago is getting such premier play in goal, Blackhawks fans have to spread the love among starter Corey Crawford and backups Scott Darling and Antti Raanta.
With Raanta having beaten the Flames...

The summary
Patrick Kane and Kris Versteeg each had a goal and two assists, Duncan Keith and Jonathan Toews a goal and an assist apiece and Brent Seabrook and Brandon Saad also scored as the Blackhawks throttled the Stars 6-2 on Sunday night at the...

When the NHL schedule was released in June, the Blackhawks might have felt a sense of relief seeing their opponents for the first part of their annual circus trip.Kicking off the six-game, 10-day odyssey are contests against the Flames, Oilers and Canucks...

TV/radio: 8 p.m. Thursday; CSN, WGN-AM 720.Storylines: The Blackhawks kick off their annual circus trip — this time a six-game jaunt — with a game against the red-hot Flames, who have won three in row. Corey Crawford will make his ninth...

CALGARY, Alberta -- The Chicago Blackhawks will be without a key component of their lineup when they kick off a six-game road trip in Calgary against the Flames on Thursday night.
Forward Andrew Shaw is sidelined with an upper-body injury. Shaw practiced...

CALGARY, Alberta — Entering a challenging stretch of schedule, the Blackhawks could have done without some bad news right off the hop.
But that is exactly what they got when they arrived for their morning skate Thursday in Calgary, the first stop on a...

The summaryPatrick Kane scored the game-winner in the third period as the Blackhawks topped the Flames 4-3 on Thursday night at the Scotiabank Saddledome to kick off their six-game trip on a positive note.Adam Clendening, Daniel Carcillo and...

CALGARY, Alberta -- A new face has joined the Chicago Blackhawks as they continue their six-game road trip.
The Hawks recalled forward Phillip Danault on Friday and the rookie will be added to the mix with the team set to practice in Edmonton, Alberta,...

EDMONTON, Alberta — As practice was winding down Friday in Edmonton, Phillip Danault stepped onto the ice at Rexall Place and immediately was sent on a lap around the rink while the Blackhawks huddled at the red line.
It was a welcome gesture — one...

In communist countries during the mid-1980s, not much footage from North America made its way onto TV screens.
Yet each day when his father watched the news in their family's small apartment in Trencin, which at the time was part of Czechoslovakia and is...

Patrick Sharp hadn't been with the Blackhawks long before Duncan Keith hung the nickname "Shooter" on the forward.
It was 2005 and Sharp had just joined the Hawks via a trade with the Flyers when he was given the moniker. He's been living up to...